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Chinese Lantern Plant
see synonyms of chinese lantern plantNoun
1. bladder cherry, chinese lantern plant, physalis alkekengi, winter cherry
Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Chinese Lantern Plant
see synonyms of chinese lantern plant a perennial ground-cherry (Physalis alkekengi) grown for winter bouquets because of the bladderlike red calyx that surrounds its small, tomatolike fruit
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